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Dara Flynn writes:

I know you don’t normally do this, but my mother lost an antique rose gold bracelet recently, most likely in Dublin city centre: around the Eccles Street and Henry Street areas. Around 11 days ago – November 7.

If anyone heard of someone finding such a thing, I’d be delighted to know! She’s quite upset about it, as it’s of high sentimental value to her and we’d absolutely love to get it back to her. We’ve contacted all the premises she was in on that date, and Dublin Bus, but no joy so far… so we are hoping someone has found it on the street.

We don’t have a good pic of it, but it closely resembles the bracelets in these pictures, i.e. Victorian in style, except my mother’s bracelet has all short “fancy links” rather than the long and short link formation seen on these ones (above)…

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The new video from Cork alt-rock/post-metal trio Ealadha debuted this morning, for single Hurricanes.

Premiering on Overblown.co.uk, the video was directed by Rob O’Halloran of Mint Video.

Writes Jamie Coughlan on the site:

“The track is centered around our innate ability to overcome life’s obstacles and to defy,” says Dom Murphy, front-man with Ealadha. “Touching on the themes of life, death and the creativity found in between, this video aims to match the transcendent, swelling rhythm and vocal content with its own complimentary story,” adds Rob O’ Halloran.

Ealadha’s debut E.P. Limit of Our Sight is available now on their Bandcamp.

Mint Video

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John Giles and Eamon Dunphy

On The Ray D’Arcy Show….

Sinead Harrington writes:

Comedy legend and raconteur Ricky Tomlinson will talk about life with The Royle Family , his time on the hit soap Brookside and his recent letter of support to the water protestors in Jobstown
Former Ireland and Munster rugby player Donncha O’Callaghan will drop by to fill Ray in on his recent rugby exploits, his thoughts on the Ireland v New Zealand match and life both on and off the pitch.
And as they prepare to take to the stage in Vicar Street next month, football pundits John Giles and Eamon Dunphy will tell Ray about why they have chosen to have their Christmas party live on stage!

The Ray D’Arcy Show, RTÉ One at 9:50pm.

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Andrew Galvin, poet and activist

On the thorny question of a father’s rights during pregnancy.

Andrew Galvin writes:

Dear Men,

Some of you are confused as to whether or not you have the right to force a woman whose egg your sperm has fertilised to either terminate the pregnancy against her will or carry the pregnancy against her will as the case may be. Let’s see if I can help.

No.

No you don’t.

And it’s awful to even think you can.

Once you’ve ejaculated, your agency ends with regard to having a say either way about any pregnancy.

Why is that?

Because…

A) After ejaculation, literally every other aspect of making a baby happens in and to another person’s body.

B) Forcing a woman to carry a pregnancy against her will and forcing a woman to terminate a pregnancy against her will both fall under the legal definition of torture.

But don’t worry, this does not diminish your rights or choices. Here’s how:

If you DON’T want a termination then your fool-proof guaranteed way to ensure that is to exercise your infinite, pre-ejaculation agency and choose not to ejaculate into a vagina.

Crazy, I know but it works 100% of the time, all the time.

If you DO want a termination and the woman involved doesn’t the exact same applies. Your last chance to make that choice is BEFORE you ejaculate.

So, make it then; in that glorious time of infinite, pre-ejaculation agency, Instead of thinking you can force a termination on someone who doesn’t want one later down the line….

FIGHT!

A Fertilised Egg Is Not A Contract (Andrew Galvin)

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“We’ve never seen rental increases like this in any jurisdiction that we’re aware of”

David Ehrlich (above) chief executive of Ires Reit, Ireland’s largest biggest (tax exempt) landlord.

First Time Buyer writes:

The latest CSO figures put the annual increase in residential property prices at 7.3%.

Moreover, average rents nationwide haves risen by around 12% over the past year, which is the highest rate of annual inflation on record.

Are the two linked? Absolutely!

Dr John McCartney, director of research at Savills, commented that

“the Central Bank rules prevented some people from buying and caused a temporary slowdown in the market. But the frustrated buyers were simply pushed into renting, which has driven up rents. What we are now seeing is a resumption of price growth as investors are being attracted into the market by ever higher rents.”

These increases are not only having a disastrous effect on communities, they are severely damaging our Irish competitiveness at a time that when we need it most.

But rather than address the problem, the Government have chosen to FAN THE FLAMES. Their “Help to Buy” scheme made Davy economists revise UP their growth forecast for house price inflation to 7% and at the same time gained praise from Tom Parlon of the Construction Industry Federation.

Now Minister Simon Convey has signaled that rent controls will not be introduced because he doesn’t want to “put the dead hand of regulation on the construction sector”.

Unfortunately, Simon has missed a trick, because as we know investors love CERTAINITY as they can easily model out their expected return.

Whereas if rents are expected to jump more than 10% a year, they will build this into their bid price; further increasing land and property prices and contributing to the problem.

The government needs to ACT NOW and introduce rent regulation and security of tenure and stop pandering to global wealth funds and the construction sector at the cost to Irish society.

Ireland’s biggest landlord: ‘I feel bad for the Irish people’ (Irish Times)

A spiral out of control: global real estate funds, rental crisis & government policy (Dr Rory Aherne, Tasc)

Act Now For Secure Rents (uplift.ie)

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Via ‘The Dealer‘

I received a note from Carmel Murphy at the weekend about her six-year-old niece Lexi who was recovering from a kidney and liver transplant in England.

Lexi is now almost two weeks over her operation and hopes to be back on her family’s beef farm in Co Waterford in no time

…Aunt Carmel explained that there was something that Lexi needed.

“My niece has just had a double transplant in Birmingham and her request after her operation was to have Lucozade, Hula Hoops and a copy of the Irish Farmers Journal.

“We, of course, granted her this wish. We would love to share this picture with you to let all your team know the great job they are doing and how this paper means something different to all generations and brings joy and conversation to the young and not so young in our family and I’m sure many more like us. We thank you most sincerely for this.”

In fairness.

Brave Lexi battles transplant with with a little help from Irish Farmers Journal (The Dealer, Irish Farmers Journal)

Thanks Aisling Hussey

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Ferrolic: a ferromagnetic fluid clock (still in development) by Zelf Koelman – biomimetic forms driven by an internal system available via a web browser. To wit:

Because the fluid behaves in a unpredictable way, it is possible to give the bodies perceived in the Ferrolic display a strong reference to living creatures. It is this lively hood that enables Ferrolic to show a meaning-full narrative like for instance having the creatures play tag. In addition the natural flow of the material, it can be used to form recognisable shapes and characters. Ferrolic uses these both layers in parallel in order to display scenes and transitions in an poetic, almost dance like, choreographed way.

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